{"id":50445,"date":"2020-05-11T01:15:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-11T01:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/aee\/aee-1362-spoken-english-conversation-the-word-nother-in-english-examples\/"},"modified":"2023-04-25T15:41:42","modified_gmt":"2023-04-25T15:41:42","slug":"aee-1362-spoken-english-conversation-the-word-nother-in-english-examples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.allearsenglish.com\/aee-1362-spoken-english-conversation-the-word-nother-in-english-examples\/","title":{"rendered":"AEE 1362: Should You Be Using the Word Nother in English?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Have you heard somebody say \u201cnother\u201d in English?<\/p>\n

Is this one of those words that seems a bit confusing or as if there are other alternatives for?<\/p>\n

There are some words that work well only in conversation, and don\u2019t really work in writing.<\/p>\n

If you look at the word \u201cnother\u201d this is such a word, and it also tends to be much more informal than the alternatives. This word is used mostly in spoken English. <\/strong><\/p>\n

We\u2019re going to look at this word, how and when you might use it, and how it can be used in conversation plus you\u2019ll get tons of useful examples.<\/p>\n

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Understanding Some Background<\/strong><\/h3>\n

We have talked about this idea before\u2013we focused on the idea of other, nother, and another in 1354.<\/p>\n

You may come to the realization as we did, that there are several phrases that use the word \u201cnother\u201d in it.<\/p>\n

This is a word that may seem hard to understand, or at least may be hard to know when to use it.<\/p>\n

If you do some research you will find plenty out there on this word.<\/p>\n

There is actually an article on Merriam Webster that may help a bit.<\/p>\n

It helps with a word like \u201cnother\u201d to understand the basics of it.<\/p>\n

The article is \u201cWhole Nother\u2019: Wrong or Right?\u201d<\/a> and it will help you to see how this word evolved.<\/p>\n

The history of \u201cnother\u201d goes back longer than you might think.<\/p>\n

In the article they say that \u201cnother\u201d is a word\u2013but it\u2019s really just with \u201ca whole nother\u2026..____\u201d<\/p>\n

Apparently this word has been used since the early 1500s if you can believe it!<\/p>\n

It was a real word then and it was used in conversations often.<\/p>\n

Then in the 19th century, that\u2019s when we started using it with \u201cwhole\u201d in our sentences.<\/p>\n

However ,in the mid 20th century,  many refused  nother as a word and the controversy around it began.<\/p>\n

According to Merriam Webster this may be because it is not formal and only really used in spoken English.<\/p>\n

Since it is not used in formal writing, then that may be why it was rejected as a word.<\/p>\n

So you can see there is a lot of history to this word, and it is interesting to understand for some background.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s About Chopping Up A Phrase<\/strong><\/h3>\n

When you look at the word, nother is really the chopped up version of another.<\/p>\n

The idea is that you would say something like \u201ca whole nother xyz\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

Grammarist mentions this split that you are learning about, and they reiterate this point and how it is intended to be used.<\/p>\n

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